Dose-indicator for medicine-bottles.



PATBNTED MAY 12; 1 903.

, N. s. LEA, DOSE INDICATOR FOR MEDICINE BOTTLES.

A PPLIOATION FILED AUG. 29, 1901.

N0 MODEL.

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UNITED STATES.

Patented May 12, 1903.

PATENT 'iOFFicE.

NORMAN S. LEA, OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.

DOSE-IN DICATOR FOR M EDlClNE-BOTTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 727,645, dated May 12, 1903. Application filed August 29, 1901- Serial No. 73,734. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, NORMAN S. LEA, a citizen of the United States, residing at Charleston, county of Charleston, and State of South Carolina, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Dose-Indicators for Medicine-Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in dose-indicators for medicinebottles, and has for its object to provide a device which may be attached to the neck of a medicine-bottle consisting ofa pasteboard disk which has represented upon one side the dial of a clock, and a small pin is attached to this disk, and this pin may be stuck through the disk at any point to indicate the time for vthe next dose of medicine.

With these ends in view this invention consists in the details of construction and combination of elements hereinafter set forth and then specifically designated by the claim.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains may understand how to make and use the same, the construction and operation will now be described in detail, referring to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective view showing my device attached to a bottle, and Fig. 2 a front elevation of the device by itself.

In the drawings, A represents a disk, of cardboard or other suitable material, which may be easily perforated with a pin. Upon one side ofthis disk is represented, around the edge of the same, twelve hours divided up into fractions of an hour. While I have shown the hours only divided in halves and quarters in the drawings, it is obvious that they may be divided into any number, even into minutes, if desired; but for all practical purposes halves and quarters would probably be sufficient.

B represents-a cordthe two ends of which are secured to the disk A, and the loop of the cord is adapted to be passed around the neck of the bottle, so as to suspend the disk therefrom. O is another cord, one end of which is secured to the disk, preferably in the center of the same, and the other end of the cord is secured to a small pointed pin .D. This pin D is for the purpose of indicating the time for the next dose of medicine. If, for instance, the medicine is to be taken every hour and the last dose was taken at eight oclock, thepin is stuck into the diskA upon thelineindicatin g nine oclock,and the next time the pin is removed from the 9 and stuck through the numeral 10, and so on. A'blank space is left upon the front of the disk whereupon advertisements may be placed, if .desired, and theback of the disk is left'blank for the same purpose.

The principal advantage of my invention is the small cost at which the same can be manufactured, While at the same time furnishing an effective and simple indicator which will fulfil all the requirements of a more expensive instrument, and by utilizing the space upon the same it can be made so cheap that the druggist can afford to give one away with each bottle of medicine, which will be of great advantage to the public.

Of course I do not wish to be limited to the exact construction here shown, as slight modifications could be made without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful is-- In a device of the character described, a disk composed of a single thickness of cardboard having three apertures therein and pro- Vided with Roman numerals to designate the hours and with straight lines to design ate the fractional parts of an hour, a pin having one end bent to form an eye, a flexible connection having one end secured in the back of the disk and run through one of the apertures of the disk thence over the bottle in a loop shape, then back again through the disk entering the aperture from the front of the disk and returning through another aperture and having its opposite end secured in the eye of the pin as and for the purpose.specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

NORMAN S. LEA.

Witnesses:

T. B. ANDERSON, P. L. BIssELL. 

